Sweet Caress tries to be inventive – but it can’t quite muster the energy
The novel’s use of found photos is an interesting conceit but, like the legerdemain around the book’s title, emphasising the…
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The heir to Chinua Achebe? How Chigozie Obioma’s debut has wowed readers
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen has been widely and joyously reviewed.
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Making myths: Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this tale of Nigeria in the 1990s is a mighty fry-up of pop-culture, fable…
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A “nearly-history” of the Eighties, Britain’s decade of boom, bust and Tory triumph
On Andy Beckett’s Promised You a Miracle: UK 80-82, a long view of an often misunderstood decade.
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“I hated myself”: David Hare’s self-flagellating memoir
The director comes across as both hypersensitive and unnervingly frank in The Blue Touch Paper.
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Margaret Drabble: what kind of a feminist is Elena Ferrante?
The Story of the Lost Child is the final instalment in a literary phenomenon. But what does its elusive author really believe?
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Beautiful minds: the sometimes brutal history of treating autism
Steve Silberman’s Neurotribes, winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, champions “neurodiversity”.
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How psychedelia transformed pop culture
There are things known, and there are things unknown – and they’re all in Rob Chapman’s cultural history of LSD, Psychedelia…
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